BA(Hons) Business and Management (Top Up)

Entry year
2025/26
Course code
N12T
Application
UCAS
Level
Undergraduate
School
Bristol Business School
Campus
Frenchay
Duration
One year
Delivery
Full-time September or January start
Programme leader
Dr Akin Ojolo

This course is open for applications.

Introduction

Top up your existing qualifications to an honour’s degree. This final-year equivalent course is aimed at those with a relevant qualification (e.g., HND).

Why study business and management?

In an increasingly competitive global market, businesses need to evolve constantly. Employers look for graduates with not only business theory but also practical skills and real-world experience. This combination is essential for tackling the challenges of today’s business world.

Why UWE Bristol?

Our BA(Hons) Business and Management top-up course is tailored to meet the needs of modern organisations, equipping you with the practical skills and experience to thrive. This flexible one-year course lets you choose specialist modules and develop your business interests.

Enterprise is at the core of Bristol Business School. If you have an entrepreneurial idea, we can support you with funding, desk space, and an in-house crowdfunding platform. You’ll also benefit from guest speakers, case studies, competitions and online simulations to ensure you graduate ready for the working world.

Where can it take me?

UWE Bristol’s Business and Management top-up course offers broad, practical experience with multiple career pathways. Graduates have gone on to management roles in retail, marketing, HR, and recruitment.

Structure

Content

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

You'll study:

  • Enterprise Project or Business Project and Business Project in Theory
  • Business Strategy
  • Managing Organisational Change
  • Integrated Business Management Simulation
  • Academic and Professional Development.

Plus, two optional modules from:

  • Brand Management
  • Business Innovation and Growth
  • Competing Through Quality
  • Doing Business in Asia
  • Events and Festivals Management
  • International Business in Emerging Markets
  • International Financial Management
  • International Human Resource Management
  • International Marketing Communications
  • Investment Management
  • Project Management
  • Retail Marketing and Management
  • Sustainable Business
  • The Economics of Developing Countries
  • Virtual Business.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we'll inform you.

Learning and Teaching

You'll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, group work, case studies, online exercises and simulation activities. You'll be expected to read independently to broaden and strengthen your learning.

You'll develop your communication and presentation skills, IT and numeracy skills, and project and time management skills throughout.

Your improved problem solving, critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and innovation skills will help you stand out as a graduate.

See our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Assessment

You'll be assessed through a mix of coursework and examinations to assess what you know and can do, and help you develop the confidence and skills that employers value.

You'll complete essays and reports, business plans and applied research projects, portfolios and weekly notes, and assessed group and individual presentations and posters.

You'll also reflect and comment on your own learning and personal development.

Learn more about assessments.

Features

Study facilities

In our Bristol Business School, you'll have access to cutting-edge learning spaces like the Bloomberg financial trading room. Training in this state-of-the-art financial platform will give you a commanding view of global finance.

Our University Enterprise Zone, Future Space at our Frenchay campus incubates, hatches and provides growth space for robotics, biosciences and biomedicine start-ups.

Designed with student input, the Business School building offers learning spaces for individual and group study plus conference rooms you can book. It's a space for students and businesses to come together, collaborate and form new partnerships.

In our specialist library, business librarians manage vast collections to support your research. Attend workshops to develop your information skills or use our study skills information.

The library and Business School both offer spaces for silent and group study and rooms you can book. You'll have access to recommended books, trade press, academic journals, and industry databases on and off campus.

Take a personalised virtual tour of the Business Management facilities and experience what a typical day could look like here for you.

Life

Accommodation

An excellent range of options for all of the Bristol campuses and the city centre.

Bristol

A stunning city for student living with all the qualities to make you want to stay.

Sports, societies and activities

There is more to your experience here than study. Choose to make the most of it and try new things.

Health and Wellbeing

We provide support in the way you need it.

Campus and facilities

Discover our campuses and the wealth of facilities provided for our students.

Careers

Careers / Further study

This course opens up a diverse range of career pathways, including management roles in retail, marketing, HR, and recruitment.

Bristol has a strong labour market, and employers highly value our course and students.

We have good links with organisations, and past graduates have secured roles with multinationals, SMEs, and the public sector.

Many students take up graduate management schemes, go on to further study, or progress to teaching and research careers.

Upon completion, you’ll have the opportunity to continue your studies at UWE Bristol in a variety of ways, including MSc programmes, and take advantage of a range of alumni discounts and scholarships. 

Get inspired

Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and find you graduate jobs and global opportunities.

We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.

Visit our employability pages to find out about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.

Useful links

Fees*

Supplementary fee information

*The UK Government recently proposed that tuition fees for Home students will increase by 3.1% to £9,535 from 1st August 2025. This increase is subject to Parliamentary approval and the vote is expected to take place later this year.

Any tuition fee which is impacted by this change will be updated following approval.

Please see GOV.UK for further information.

Additional costs are for items you could need during your studies that aren't covered by the standard tuition fee. These could be materials, textbooks, travel, clothing, software or printing.

Learn more about costs.

Entry

Typical offers

  • GCSE: Grade C/4 in English and Mathematics, or equivalent.
  • English Language Requirement:

    International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with no component under 5.5 (or approved equivalent*).
    *The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Please visit our English language requirements page.

Entry requirements

You should normally hold an HND or Foundation Degree (or equivalent), or have successfully completed the equivalent of 240 UK credit points (120 ECTS credits) in a related subject discipline.

International applicants

For country specific entry requirements please find your country on the country information pages. If you are an international student and do not meet the academic requirements to study this course, you can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.

If you are applying to study at UWE Bristol and require additional support to meet our English language requirements, you may be able to attend one of our pre-sessional English courses. Read more about our Pre-Sessional English Programme.

Read more about entry requirements.

How to apply

Read more about undergraduate applications.

Read more about international applications and key international deadline dates.

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